I feel like I'm suffering somewhat from post-holiday depression. Rather than feeling super-refreshed from my time away, I'm actually feeling kind of exhausted, and at several points over the last couple of days I've felt somewhat on the verge of tears for no apparent reason. Not a great place to be in.
I think it's probably just culture shock at going from a whole week of being able to do whatever I wanted in a pleasant environment to being back in mundane old, boring old reality.
It's kind of frustrating when my brain works in this way because my day job isn't a bad one or anything — indeed, I'd probably go so far as to say it's the best one I've ever had — but when I start feeling like this, all the little frustrating things about it start to mount up and become incredibly irritating. But I shall save discussion of those things for another day; no-one from my work reads this, so that's not a problem, but one of the annoying things is that the things which frustrate me are so specific to my job that my complaining about them probably wouldn't mean anything to anyone except one of my colleagues! Oh well.
As I mentioned the other day, I think it's just a matter of getting back into the rhythm of things and establishing some new habits. It didn't help that I ended up going to bed a bit early last night because I wasn't feeling particularly well, and subsequently I ended up sleeping a little later than intended, waking up at the time I'd normally aim to be leaving for work.
From next week, I'm going to make a concerted effort to try and get up much earlier than I need to, and to start going for a morning swim. This will hopefully achieve a few things: improve my mental state of a morning (and in general), allow me to feel like I've "done" something before the working day starts, get some much-needed exercise and enjoy some daily relaxation in the water. (Judging from my time in the pool on holiday last week, I think it's good for my skin, too, which is a bonus.)
It is, of course, going to be a major effort to haul my ass out of bed in the morning in time to do this, but I think it'll be a positive thing overall. Check back on Monday to see how I got on!
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